This was my first game... and I sold it. I'm actively trying to get it back. I always loved this picture as I was clearing giving RS more attention than TZ.

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Played some RS tonight. Crappy scores but I suck.

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Finishing my Led conversion with pinball bulbs , pics coming

This game looks awesome with LEDs! Enjoy!

Pics tomorrow, wow factor! Just put pinball bulbs kit in, apron and back strips are awesome and led color scheme is great. Thrilled with it...

Second pin I ever picked up and that was five and a half years ago. It'll be the last to go too! I painted my radio, but I can't find a photo on my computer right now. I'll take another tomorrow if I think of it.

As an aside, the musician Tricky made a music video last year out of photos that were submitted to him. I sent him a photo of my Road Show radio! It's on the screen for only half a second, but its in there... haha...

Screen Shot 2014-03-17 at 9.55.04 PM.png Duh, this is a screen shot of the radio in the Tricky video.

Threw some 44 flex leds into the ramp signs and point them back toward it.
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Ted looks like he belongs in a 1970's adult film. (Who's gonna pay for this bulldozer?)

Man, you did a nice job there, but gotta admit they look creepier than usual. Look like they aged along with the pin! (which is kind of cool but adds to the creepy feeling)

Itza me Mario, Ima in u Road Show!

Heres my RS.. I really miss it. My first attempt at a restore..

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Here is my original fish wear.. i penciled in how it should look
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Here is my hand painted correction
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When i put the game together.. I swapped the connectors to the motors by mistake.. made for some interesting gameplay!!

I have a RoadShow that is in nearly perfect condition. It was a filthy wreck when I acquired it about a year ago. The previous owner had taped the head down with duct tape. I literally sat for hours on a stool rubbing goo-gone on the dried-up glue residue. Probably have about 100 total hours into the restoration. But, more to the point, I love the game, love the music and banter. I'll post some pics in a bit.

Does anyone have an LED map they can share of what bulbs/colors they placed on the playfield and backbox?

Everyone seems to have a different idea on what the RS radio should look like. Here is my take:

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we need more RS love over in this poll...

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Any one know where I can get one of these plastics, or has one for sale?

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Picked mine up for $2250. Needed Jaw motor for Ted, jaw gear for Ted and jaw gear for Red. Pop bumper cap cracked as well. Lots of cleaning needed too. I put in some led's in several spots to brighten up. Have $250 in parts, so I am back up to $2500 total.

Personally haven't seen very many cleaned up machines for less than $2750.

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You can't accidentally plug them in wrong, they are keyed to prevent this. You had to do it intentionally.

Webdiddy, If you disagree with my comment, please share how I am incorrect? Maybe I have some real special molex connectors on my machine that no other RS has. Just looking to understand your thumb down.

- Rich

Um... no.

It was a while ago. Maybe the boards were swapped? Definitely not intentional.

How did the game turn out ? are you happy with it ? I finally found my son a Funhouse to put next to the RS, he is doing a restoration on it right now.

Don't forget that an error message will pop up if a switch has not been hit for a while. Not sure what the number of games is, but I have had this happen. Testing will (I think) clear the error. Might be that nothing was ever really wrong.

You are right with the keys in the connectors but from what I have found a lot of routed games either have the connectors changed or something because the keys are gone. I buy the keys from great planes just to make sure I replace them if missing when doing a restore.

Now i am getting curious. Since i have massive pics I took during the teardown/rebuild.. i found these. Is this the area the two motors connect? First one is teardown, second pic during rebuild. Looks swapped to me and this was taken before i turned on the game for the first time.

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I saw the thread. I have a 19 year old and a 16 year old and neither were interested in messing with the machines with me. Love to see your son involved. The roadshow has cleaned up well. It can't carry water to the one you did, but it looks 100% better than when I picked it up. I pulled the coin door off, sand blasted it and repainted it. It's amazing how a coin door makes such a difference.

Beyond a thorough cleaning and adding a few LED's, the majority if issues were with the jaw gears and a burnt jaw motor.

For one of the jaws, the previous owner put a screw in to connect the jaw to the linkage. When I was cleaning out the machine, I found the proper pin with snap rings. I know operators are all about getting a machine back up and running, but seeing hacks like this just irritates me.

I did use some locktite on a couple of screws on both Red and Ted. I think the shaker motor is vibrating some of them lose.

The lockdown bar your dad sent is awesome! I hate the repaired lockdown bars with holes in them and bolts.

I pulled the faces and thoroughly cleaned them both. Wife loves playing it, so I put them back on for now. Will probably get theme painted like your dad did.

Only other addition I am considering is painting the radio. It is SO bland.

Look forward to watching you and your Dad restore the Funhouse. We love our Funhouse as well. Great game.

-Rich

Glad you like your Roadshow this is the third time my dad has had this game and he always loves it, and Thanks, I have a few pictures up now but I am ordering parts and cleaning everything up right now for the Funhouse

I bought a road show last weekend and have been busy tearing it down, fixing the heads and gears and cleaning it up. Its going to be really nice when I am done. The playfield is very nice. Anyway, after tearing down the playfield, I do not have a connector under the playfield that goes to the spotlite connector that goes on Teds face. Can somebody check and see what color wires are associated with the spotlite under the playfield. There is a set of 2 wires down there but they are just loose without a connector.

That connector is on the falling rocks wireform.

Thanks, surprising I didnt notice the connector on the wireform. I still have to figure out where those 2 wires under the playfield go to. One is white with yellow stripe and the other is green with black stripe. None of the flashers work either so I am hoping this has something to do with it. Anybody know where those 2 wires lead to? They are near the top right side of the playfield but underneath.

Any one else have the ball drain almost every time the bulldozer blade is hit? I have an issue with the ball going straight down the middle. I may need to level the play field, I have it a about a 6 1/2 degree tilt

add me to the club..Just picked up a restored one over the weekend...Love this game!!!

It is a risky shot but you shouldn't lose more than 10% from the bulldozer blade. I do tend to skip the New York
mode and let the timer run out. Not enough points vs. risk there.

It's a sucker shot...but shouldn't drain EVERY time. Maybe 1 in 10 will be sketchy.

Thanks Apekop and Pimp77, I will have to avoid the taxi cab shots then

It's important to clarify how you hit it. It's an enormous target, the size of three drops!

If I hit dead on the center of the three I'm very likely to drain SDTM. Hitting the left most one is more often forgiving, but the best shot for me is hitting the rightmost one from the left flipper such that the ball bounces toward the pops area. It rarely does feed into the pops, but often just hitting the post in that area is enough to prevent a SDTM drain.

Absolutely make sure you're level. No point in building up muscle memory for incorrect angles. Since I leveled my RS I find I miss everything, and Red is always easier to tell me so

Anybody on this one?

Mocean, LOL red tells me all the time " You missed everything" thanks Red for stating the obvious

Thanks for the tips, Ill have to give it a try. I also find that it is hard for me to hit the blast zone with the little flipper, may need to adjust as it seems weak when hitting the ball

Owned RED & TED's Road Show for years. Great Pinball

Love my Roadshow. It's not the perfect pinball game, but boy is it fun and full of character(s).

So I was playing road show tonight and then during multiball the whole thing shorted out, DMD died, all lights nothing. still had sound but that is it. Turned off and on, came back up but DMD scrambled. Turned off and on again, everything came back on. Played another game but then same thing DMD became scrambled and then lights out.